Francisco,

I hope that the SYSTEMS guy knows something about the network availability and
that is why he says it cannot be done, but my guess is that your SYSTEMS guy
does not know the MPE/iX operating system well, he is determined to 'bad mouth'
the HP3000 or it is a 'job security' thing.

The following command file (with the proper replacements for 'destination' and
'local') executed from within a batch job would  transfer the needed file.

Regards
Paul Christidis

echo open DESTINATION_MACHINE         > ftpin
echo user DESTINATION_USER           >> ftpin
echo DESTINATION_PASSWORD            >> ftpin
echo cd DESTINATION_DIRECTORY        >> ftpin
echo bytestream                      >> ftpin
echo put LOCAL_NAME DESTINATION_NAME >> ftpin
echo quit                            >> ftpin
ftp.arpa.sys < ftpin


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Subject:    MPEX, FTPing a file.
Author: [log in to unmask]
Date:       7/12/99 10:45 AM

Hello List,
I've been reading this list for a short time, however,
I need your help.  You see we have an HP3000 here on site and there is a dowload
that occurs at about 5am everymorning but to get the file from the HP to our lan
we need to have our SYSTEMS guy do this, well for security reasons he has not
granted us access to the server were we could go download this data ourselves.
I figure that MPEX is not very similar to UNIX but could there be a way to get
READ rights to one directory and so we could go in and copy the 2 files we need
and not have read to any other part of the system?

OR

(this would be IDEAL)
the MPEX system would invoke FTP and send the file to our LAN without user
interuption?

I just don't know how to write the JCL script for this... if it IS possible,
please let me know Our system guy has said it is not.


Our systems guy has to do the transfer himself and well, he usually doesn't get
it done till 6:30 to 7am we have a meeting at 8 and well this only gives us 1
hour to complete updating our Excel/Access tools and to analyze the data.  this
is not very effecient.  if he is out we are out of luck and will have to do the
updating manually via typing in the report we get printed every morning....

thanks,
Just trying to simplify the morning! :)
Francisco